Saturday English Classes
As you can see the state run, Tamil primary schools are very underfunded and the ridiculous government policy that they can only teach 1 hour of English a week, makes life very difficult for these children from poor backgrounds, to do well when they get to secondary school, because another one the governements policies is that maths and science must be taught in English in secondary school.
So to give these kids a better chance we are running these classes for free every saturday at 9 Tamil schools.
I'm kept busy coordinating and developing the syllabus and all the lesson plans for different ability levels. The lessons are focused purely on speaking English and only through games activities, stories, songs etc. The kids love it, we have a total of 300 kids at the moment. They are all from Standard 1 (Year 1).
Next year we hope to extend this programme to Standard 2 students too. But as it is, it is difficult to get realiable volunteers and we need to maintain class sizes at 10 students per volunteer teacher. So at present we have 30 teachers, who I need to train and coordinate regularly with.
